From 7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:39:43 +0000 Subject: netdev: Remove redundant checks for CAP_NET_ADMIN in MDIO implementations dev_ioctl() already checks capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) before calling the driver's implementation of MDIO ioctls. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/ibm_newemac') diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c index 24ae671e4cb..8a95234d419 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c @@ -2225,8 +2225,6 @@ static int emac_ioctl(struct net_device *ndev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd) return 0; case SIOCSMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; emac_mdio_write(ndev, dev->phy.address, data[1], data[2]); return 0; default: -- cgit v1.2.3